Bilt

Is the Bilt Obsidian worth its $95 fee?

On $1,000 a month of spending, split evenly across restaurants, travel, groceries and everything else: yes.

21,000 points a year at 1.25¢ = $263, minus the $95 annual fee = $168 a year.

That is a worked example, not a figure about you — we have no idea what you spend. Put your own numbers in and the same arithmetic runs on those.

What it earns

3x on dining, 2x on travel, and points on rent with no cap — the rent earning is the reason to hold it and is not in these figures.

Bilt Rewards points are worth about 1.25 cents each on our published table, our own. What Bilt Rewards points are worth →

What comes with it

Credits count for $0 in the sum above — what a typical holder actually redeems, not the sticker value of every credit on the page.

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